MENINGITIS

FACTS

• Meningitis attacks children
• Your immune system is a good defense
• You can get a vaccine also
• Meningitis uses both viral and bacterial
• To get people sick

PEOPLE AND TIME

• Meningitis is a brain infection
• It covers the brain and spinal cord
• Often occurs in late summer early fall
• Occurs to people in 30 and younger
• Bacteria meningitis is an emergency

SYMPTOMS

• Fever and chills
• Mental change
• Vomiting
• Not wanting to go in light
• Bad headaches

TEST TO SEE IF YOU ARE SICK

• Fast heart rate
• Fever
• Mental change
• Stiff neck

TREATMENTS

• Antibiotics
• IV
• Medicine for brain swelling

COMPLICATIONS

• Brain damage
• Hearing lose
• Seizures
• Build up of fluid in the head

PREVENTION

• Get the vaccine
• If household members are
• Sick give them medication

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001700/#adam_000680.disease.sy...
• http://www.cdc.gov/bam/diseases/immune/db/meningitis.html

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